Betsy Cooper

Executive Director, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Betsy Cooper is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Cooper comes to UC Berkeley from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as an Attorney Advisor to the Deputy General Counsel and as a Policy Counselor in the Office of Policy. She also worked for over a decade in homeland security consulting, managing projects for Atlantic Philanthropies (Dublin, Ireland), the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in London, the World Bank, and other think tanks. Cooper is the author of over 20 manuscripts and articles on U.S. and European immigration and refugee policy. Cooper holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a DPhil in politics and an M.Sc. in forced migration from Oxford University, and a B.A. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.